A DRIVER “thought she was going to die” after a car travelling at 50mph crashed into her on the wrong side of the road.

Anna Dawson, 41, was left shaken after a Range Rover veered in the wrong direction and drove the wrong way up an A127 slip road in Basildon.

Mrs Dawson was driving her Audi A4 off the dual carriageway at the Noak Bridge junction, when she saw the four by four travelling at speed towards her.

Her Audi was written off.

Anna, from Billericay, explained how her three-year-old nephew, her new border collie puppy and her sister were all in the car at the time.

She said: “I thought I was going to die, I thought that was it.

“He just came out of nowhere. As we came round he just appeared.

“And then suddenly there was a huge bang, and the rest is a blur.

“The whole thing then went in slow motion.

“I didn’t have time to veer out the way.”

The 41-year-old was left with three broken toes and bruising on her chest following the impact.

Her dog was kept out of harm’s way by a police officer at the scene.

She continued: “I shouted at the driver when we got out of the car.

“I didn’t get to speak to him before the police were speaking to him.

“I watch a lot of ambulance programmes on the TV, so I panicked. I didn’t want to be cut out of the car.

“I was able to get out pretty quickly, and my sister got out of my side of the car.

“She was able to get her son out of the car.

“The car was smoking, I was scared it was going to catch fire.”

An East of England Ambulance Service spokesman, said: “An ambulance attended a road traffic collision on the slip road on the A176, near the Noak Bridge junction, just after 4.15pm on Friday March 5.

“Paramedics performed assessments at the scene and no patients required transportation to hospital.”